RFGen 2025 SNES Challenge

[shaggy]

You guys don't have to put a link, pictures are working fine except for the sizing.

[shane]

Had a little bit of time tonight and thought I'd try to get at least one game done from this list. Here's Super Mario World, done by way of the star road.

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[shane]

Beat Super Metroid today. I've resized the images down so hopefully they won't expand the forum layout too much.

[Disposed Hero]

Beat GunForce over the weekend with a friend. Really short game with a ton of slowdown, at least with two players. Not something I'd recommend.

[shane]

Beat Link to the Past. I figured I'd record my screen while fighting Ganon, and my framerate dropped quite a bit. Made it a bit more challenging! Here's the screenshot and video.



https://youtu.be/EQqrq3Snriw

[shaggy]

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[shane]

Played The Great Waldo Search before starting on Soul Blazer this morning. I think it took all of 5 minutes.

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[Misto]

Damn, someone's on a roll.
I think I might need to put Major Title on hold for now.  I played through the tournament probably 50ish times already but the AI has some serious rubber banding.
No matter how good your doing, it seems around the 2/3rds mark one of the bots will jump ahead a few strokes. The best I've done is 2nd with -10.

I'm thinking of replaying shadowrun. So I'll swap out for that.

[NeoMagicWarrior]

Finished Kirby's Dream Land 3 last night.

I want preface a few things before I share my thoughts. I love Kirby games. I collect Kirby games. I speedrun (poorly) Kirby's Adventure. I have beaten almost all of them.

I HATED this game.

KDL3 is a beautiful game, with an amazing soundtrack and some really unique ideas, that all fails to be a fun game because of how god-awful it is to control. I was playing on original hardware and needed to fire up emulation to check and make sure nothing was wrong. The game felt sluggish in the best of times, and almost unresponsive at others. Gooey is a poorly executed idea in 1P and i almost never used him, and most of the animal friends were worthless (shoutouts to Kine for ALWAYS being good and ChuChu + broom being broken enough to just mulch boss health bars). The special objectives for each level are neat, but sometimes way too easy to mess up, or otherwise too obtuse to know how to complete without having to go through levels multiple times. I did not get 100% completion, and I am absolutely not going back. Copy abilities are also nerfed hard, especially fireball, as they have "anti-spam" features built in that just make the experience unfun.

This is really the only Kirby game that I think needs a remake - clean up movement, reduce lag, tweak some of the goals and it could be a great experience. As of now, its poor at best.

[shane]

Beat Soul Blazer last night. The actual end screen just says "The End", so I grabbed a screenshot of the credits rolling. Going to play Illusion of Gaia next.

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[NeoMagicWarrior]

Wanted an easy one last night so I crushed out Math Blaster.

I have WAY too much experience with the Genesis release, so it was interesting to see all the changes and adjustments. I can, without hesitation, say that the Genesis version is the way to go in every single respect.

Some of the weirder changes for the SNES version include:

• Having your weapon frozen between rounds
• A jetpack physics change that makes it difficult to hover
• No sound effect when enemy space ships are attacking you
• A full screen reset in between rounds of the UFO level
• Having to wait for all trash to leave the bounds of the screen before moving between phases

The nicest thing i can say about it is that it makes me appreciate that I grew up with the Genesis version and not this.